William C. Haynes was born in New York August 17, 1912. He earned a B.S. from Cornell in 1935, and a Ph.D. in Bacteriology in 1946. He was employed at the New York Experiment Station in Geneva from 1935-1941, and at the Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service from 1941 until his retirement in 1975.

This collection contains materials relating to the following volunteer positions held by Dr. Haynes:

Secretary of the Subcommittee on Pseudomonadales of the International Commission on Bacteriological Nomenclature of the International Association of Microbiological Societies

Member, Subcommittee on Pseudomonadales of the Taxonomy Committee of the American Society for Microbiology

Coordinator, Pseudomonas group of the Advisory Committee on Aerobic Pseudomonads of the Bergey's Manual Trust

Member, Advisory Committee on Allocation of Funds to Culture Collections of the International Association of Microbiological Societies